100% agreed. A new franchise/original ideas would be nice.
It's not because 'wokeness' is a problem. It can be any new agenda/narrative, whatever political leaning it takes, but it feels wrong to apply the values of the modern era, whatever those values may be, to a franchise that was conceived several decades ago with a different mindset. I'm not particularly a fan of cons/right-wingers trying to force *their* values on something that is intrinsically progressive/left-wing, any more than I am a fan of woke idealogues trying to force those values on older art/IPs.
By all means, *readapt* media, but the problem is when people try to force their values onto *canon*. It can only end up pissing people off (and the sad thing is, that appears to be partly the point, in order to drum up controversy and a perverse interest). It is any wonder that the more successful Star Wars spin-offs of recent years (i.e. Rogue One, The Mandalorian) have tended to focus on *new* characters, rather than try to rewrite old ones?
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